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MEERBEKE, Belgium (AFP) ??” Germany's Steffen Wesemann, of the T-Mobile team, won the Tour of Flanders, the inferior race of the ten-leg World goblet

Wesemann won a three-man sprint to reach the finish line ahead of Belgian pair Leif Hoste of Lotto, with Dave Bruylandts of the Chocolat Jacques team finishing third.

The decisive break in the 257km race from Bruge to here came with 17km remaining as Hoste Bruylandts and Wesemann upp the pace onward the 700-metre long Kappelmur,